User:Juliaschilz/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Women in Russia (SOURCES: Roache, Madeline. “The Women Fighting Russia’s Domestic Violence Epidemic | TIME.” Time, Time, 3 Mar. 2021, doi: https://time.com/5942127/russia-domestic-violence-women/ .       AND            Rocha, Zarine. “Putting Gender Back on the Policy Agenda: Gender Equality and Political Participation in the Russian Federation.” United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), for the Programme on Identities, Conflict and Cohesion., UNRISD, 2006, doi: https://iknowpolitics.org/sites/default/files/gender-russiaprofile.pdf . )

Other articles considered: Domestic violence in Russia, Anna Politkovskaya

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I learned a little bit about Putin's campaign strategies in a high school IR class and was absolutely fascinated; though all politicians use gender to some degree, I'd argue that leveraging gender is a bigger part of Putin's image than that of any other politician.

Evaluate the article
Though this article's content is informative, its information is not as richly modernized as it should be. The lead section is extremely general, and primes the reader for a contextual overview of Russian history, with emphasis on the role of women in society. The article's body is rich with informative content on the history of women in Russian politics, but this level of detail significantly drops as the discussion moves beyond the Soviet era. The source section is full, balanced, functional, and up-to-date; for the amount of recent sources, the article should reflect a greater supply of modern gender and politics scholarship.